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When upgrading your iPhone, you can transfer your business contacts from your old phone to your new phone using iTunes. Provided that you have recently synced your contacts with your computer, you can simply connect the new iPhone and copy over your contacts. Using the same Apple ID for each iPhone makes the process of syncing all of your contacts and other information to the new iPhone easier.

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Connect your old iPhone to your computer and open iTunes.

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Click on your iPhone in the Devices section, and then click "Info."

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Click the "Sync Contacts" option, and then select "All Contacts" or "Selected Groups" if you have groups set up in your address book. You can also select "Sync Yahoo! Address Book Contacts" or "Sync Google Contacts." If you sync Yahoo or Google contacts, click the "Configure" button to set up access to your accounts.

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Click the "Apply" button, wait for the sync to complete, and then press the "Eject" button to disconnect your old iPhone from the computer.

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Attach your new iPhone and select it from the Devices section.

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Click the "Info" tab, and then tick the "Sync Contacts" check box. Apply the same settings you applied to your old iPhone: choose between the "All Contacts" or "Selected Groups" sync options, and whether you want to include Yahoo or Google contacts.

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Click the "Apply" button to transfer your contacts to your new iPhone.

About the Author

Avery Martin holds a Bachelor of Music in opera performance and a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian studies. As a professional writer, she has written for Education.com, Samsung and IBM. Martin contributed English translations for a collection of Japanese poems by Misuzu Kaneko. She has worked as an educator in Japan, and she runs a private voice studio out of her home. She writes about education, music and travel.

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